Lawyer meets girl, girl enriches him, lawyer gets nice. Sound familiar? This film came out a few years earlier than the popular romantic comedy I'm referring to, and the woman who steals this ruthless lawyer's heart isn't a prostitute, in fact she's a classy artist in disguise who works for this lawyer as an investigator. The love story here is nice and relaxing, takes it's time and pays off somewhat. We get to see John Ritter playing a selfish guy who loves picking up on girls, much like his character in "Three's Company", only this guy wants to change... But only after meeting this older woman (who in real life is only three years older than Ritter but in this is thirteen years his elder), this woman who gives him a hard time at first, a chase... As in, she won't just give in to a good line like the other easy girls in single's bars that he'd excelled at "conquering" before. And so, after said lawyer and nice woman "connect", he gets smitten... And along the way she tells him that inside of that clam is a pearl... so to speak... And thus he becomes a nice lawyer and backs off a case which could have been a cinch. So what is it Hollywood's telling us? That without love we're all ruthless lawyers, and then, after-wards, furry bunny rabbits? Or rather, furry lawyers? I'm still not sure. Either way, this TV movie isn't bad for an afternoon waster if you have nothing else to do but watch TV.
Review of In Love with an Older Woman
In Love with an Older Woman
(1982 TV Movie)
Lawyer meets Girl, gets Nice
5 July 2006
Warning: Spoilers